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JOHN LEANO

PORTFOLIO
GRAD II FALL 2015

F 2014 / S 2015

ARCH 551 / CONTROL / Kelly Bair + Thomas Kelley


Investigating formal qualities through axial
and perspectival relationships and fundamental
operations: scale, orient, multiply

JOHN LEANO

XYZ

THE BOOK OF FORMS: X, Y AND Z


60 pages
A compilation of drawings examining the
outcome of formal operations through axial
perspectives with a specific focus on twin
characteristics: duplication, mimicry,
conjoined, identical, fraternal

University of Illinois at Chicago | Arch 551 | Fall 2014 | Instructors: Kelly Bair (C.) w. Thomas Kelley

Y MODEL (CAVE) A: IDENTICAL


Acrylic, 3D-print

Y MODEL (CRUCIFORM) B: CONJOINED


Acrylic, 3D-print

FORM TO TYPE: GRACELAND CEMETERY

The synthesis of twin forms through the lens of cemetery typology


(grave, monument, mausoleum, columbarium, etc.) resulted in the
Twin Pavilion: a new cemetery typology accomodating the living
and the dead underneath a coffered and tufted ceiling - like a
coffin.

STUDIO GRACELAND CEMETERY MODEL


Plywood, dowels, basswood

TWIN PAVILION

UNDERSIDE
CNC-milled polyurethane foam

ARCH 552 / POWER / Stewart Hicks + Julia Capomaggi


Tracing an idea of power in architecture by
exploring character, narrative and collage,
culminating in a bas relief model

CHARACTER PROFILE: DOS


Rockite concrete
DOS made his way from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota. While
not much is known about its bi-polar halves, Deux and Deuce, he
spends most of his time arguing with himself about the true
orientation of the world. His conclusion: its somewhere in the
gray area between black and white.
DOS is the product of a specific investigation of duality in
relation to power.

Duality implies simultaneity - the existence of two


things in the same place and time or multi-purpose.

COLLAGE

As clothing and as context:


DOS is an inhabitant of two worlds, up
and down - unique in identity yet linked,
where heirarchy is merely relative.
In collage, the plan of Villa Rotunda
becomes an urban plan... and DOS home.

DOS SITE MODEL


Chipboard

BAS RELIEF:
THE DOS BOOK MUSEUM + LIBRARY

The bas relief was an opportunity to programmatically define


duality through a museum and library. Duality was subsequently
furthered by deploying the book as both educative tool and art
object - the book in context and the book out of context.

DOS BAS RELIEF MODEL


48 1/16-chipboard layers

ELEVATION I

ELEVATION II

SECTION I
Beginning in its conventional accomodation on shelves and
becoming a decorative profile, placed on a pedestal and ultimately
a pile of meaningless objects...

SECTION II
the transition of the book from tool to art is expressed in the
programmatic transition from bottom-half library to upper-half
museum.

LIBRARY PLAN

MIDDLE FLOOR PLAN

MUSEUM PLAN

Library and museum become both wildly different...

yet equally engaging.

F 2015

ARCH 553 / HOUSE / Penelope Dean + Grant Gibson


Inverting conventional notions of the home
by looking at it in reverse; i.e. via the
interior: first furniture, object, decor, builtin, structure, and finally envelope.

A
HOUSE
FOR
ACTIVITY
This project re-examines domestic life for
a small family at Indiana Dunes National
Lakeshore through a combination of fixed and
mobile furniture. Mobile furniture plays
a literally active role for the family furniture capable of keeping up through
expediency, convenience and portability.
The tension between a modernist free plan
enabled by structural concrete columns and
a postmodernist floor manipulation creates
the setting for a mixture of events that
encourages a more open and fluid lifestyle
- the flowing, coincidence and intersection
of activity in an uninterrupted space
devoid
of
partition
and
corridor.
Caster and rollable furniture activate
pocketed spaces while the flat perimeter
around
the
pockets
accomodate
fixed
domestic utilities; i.e. the kitchen,
bathroom and general storage. The parents'
and child's bedrooms are adjoined at the
rear of the home, allowing wide views
of the forest through floor-to-ceiling
shelf-windows. Floor portholes allow
for viewing the zen garden beneath the
home,
while
two
skylights
minimally
illuminate
interior
intersections.
The
front
entry
is
approached
via
ramp off the driveway, which continues
beneath the home into a two-car garage.
Wood paneling across the faade lends
material
contrast
to
the
industrial
homogeneity of the floor and roof slabs.
Meanwhile underneath, a zen garden of
stepped gravel beds and a minimal selection
of ferns complements the home's interior
- allowing for a contemplative break
from the activity taking place inside.

ROOF PLAN

MAIN FLOOR PLAN

GARDEN PLAN

SECTION: WEST

SECTION: EAST

ELEVATION: WEST

ELEVATION: EAST

ELEVATION: NORTH

ELEVATION: SOUTH

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